The American Prospect Jamelle Bouie May 2, 2012 The super wealthy apparently believe that they deserve constant deference. Greg Sargent is rightfully stunned by the entitled petulance of Wall Street bankers who are shocked—shocked—that President Obama would do anything other than praise their indispensable brilliance: Wall Streeters are so upset about Obama’s harsh populist rhetoric [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Bush Administration’
Top Secret America: Dana Priest, William Arkin
Posted in Dick Cheney, tagged 911, Bush Administration, Dana Priest, Dick Cheney, PBS Frontline, secretive government, September 911, terrorist attacks, the dark side, top secret, William Arkin, World Trade Center on September 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Has the Balance Tipped? FRONTLINE September 7, 2011, 3:30 pm ET by Philip Bennett On a rainy day in October 2005, Dana Priest was escorted across the immaculate marble lobby of CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia along with a pair of her editors from The Washington Post (I was one of them). We crowded into [...]
The Daily Show: Bush Administration Officials Come Out of Their Hidey-Holes to Take Credit for Bin Laden’s Death
Posted in Bush Administration, Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, tagged Bush Administration, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Jane Harman, Jon Stewart, Karl Rove, Sunday shows, The Daily Show, Tom Donilon on May 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
. The Daily Show: Bush Administration Officials Come Out of Their Hidey-Holes to Take Credit for Bin Laden’s Death Crooks and Liars- By Heather May 11, 2011 07:00 PM Looks like Jon Stewart was just as frustrated as the rest of us here at C&L were when we saw the Sunday show lineup this past [...]
Report: The CIA Performed Human Experiments on Prisoners Under Bush
Posted in Bush Administration, CIA, Torture, tagged and escape, binyan mohamed, Bush Administration, CIA, enhanced interrogation te, evasion, experiments in torture, Office of Legal Counsel, resistance, sere, survival, Torture, torture memos, tuskegee syphilis study on June 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Shocking New Report: The CIA Performed Human Experiments on Prisoners Under Bush AlterNet / By Stephen Soldz A new report details how the effects of torture on detainees were closely studied in order to perfect ‘enhanced interrogation techniques.’ June 7, 2010 | Over the last year there have been an increasing number of accounts suggesting [...]
Revealed: Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld warned 9/11 Commission about ‘line’ it ’should not cross’
Posted in 911, ACLU, Bush Administration, Rumsfeld, tagged 9/11 Commission, ACLU, Bush Administration, Bush Administration officials, David Addington, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, IA Director George J. Tenet, Torture on March 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Sahil Kapur, Raw Story, March 17, 2010 Senior Bush administration officials sternly cautioned the 9/11 Commission against probing too deeply into the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, according to a document recently obtained by the ACLU. The notification came in a letter dated January 6, 2004, addressed by Attorney General John Ashcroft, Defense Secretary [...]
UK complained to US about terror suspect torture, says ex-MI5 boss
Posted in America, Bush Administration, Torture, tagged Bush Administration, Bush staff, Manningham-Buller, MI5, torture of terror suspects, United Kingdom, United States, waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on March 10, 2010 | 1 Comment »
•Waterboarding of 9/11 suspect was ‘concealed’ •Manningham-Buller criticises Bush staff Richard Norton-Taylor, Guardian/UK, March 10, 2010 Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller criticised George Bush and his administration, for torture of terror suspects Photograph: Graeme Robertson/Getty Images The government protested to the US over the torture of terror suspects, the former head of MI5, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller revealed [...]
Greenspan And Paulson: Pure Hypocrites On Bush Tax Cuts vs. Deficits? (VIDEO)
Posted in Alan Greenspan, Hank Paulson, Meet The Press, Video, tagged Alan Greenspan, budget deficit, Bush Administration, Bush Tax Cuts, CNN, David Gregory, desk, Fareed Zakaria, Hank Paulson, hypocrisy, Job, Meet The Press, UPS, Video on February 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Calling out Greenspan and Paulson for Pure Hypocrisy on Bush Tax Cuts vs. Deficits Crooks & Liars– By bluegal Monday Feb 15, 2010 8:00am I still can’t understand why David Gregory has a job, when it takes another reporter from another network to show the hypocrisy Gregory’s own guests are displaying right at his Meet [...]
Perpetual War for Perpetual War
Posted in America, war, tagged Bush Administration, Colonel Reese, Jeff Huber, U.S. troops in Iraq, United States, war, war in Iraq on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Get ready for a “lasting military presence” in Iraq By Jeff Huber | The American Conservative, Aug 8, 2009 U.S. Army Col. Timothy R. Reese says it’s time for the U.S. to “declare victory” in Iraq and “go home.” It was time to declare victory and go home in January 2007, when the Bush administration [...]













